Chosen Prompt: St. Regents St.
Chapter 2:
Draco sat at the kitchen table waiting for Tobias to finish his pancakes. He was just about done and Draco wanted to get the day going. He slowly sipped his coffee and reached over to grab the Daily Prophet. He flipped open the paper and nearly dropped his cup onto the table.
"Papa are you alright?" His son asked as he coughed and covered his mouth to clear his throat.
"I'm alright son. Are you finished eating now?" Draco asked picking up his cup to place it in the sink for Tippy to wash.
"Yes Papa. I'll run and get changed now." Tobias smiled and ran out of the kitchen, Draco waited until he heard his sons door close before he sat back down and stared at the paper.
Harry Potter and Husband divorced. Children to be awarded to Potter with no signs of his now Ex fighting for custody.
Draco couldn't stop staring at the page. The word Children popping out at him like the Avada Kedavra Curse. He knew that Harry married, and he stopped hoping things could have been different the moment he heard about it. He just never thought about the other man having children besides Tobias. His heart felt like it was being ripped from his chest again. Was Harry a good father to his other children, how old were they and what were their names. Would things have been different if Harry would've just listened to him all those years ago?
"Papa?" He heard, snapping him from his thoughts. "Are we going now?"
"Yes, Let me get my jacket and we can apparate right to Regents St." Draco answered and loved the smile that spread across his sons face.
"I can't wait to see the lights all along the street. Christmas is the best time of the year to go shopping." Tobias said jumping up and down waiting for Draco to get his jacket on.
Draco grabbed his sons hand and apparated them right to the St. he had to agree with his son, this place was amazing at Christmas time. Every single store had lights on the outside of them and Hugh Wreaths were hung above the street with large Garland holding them up.
Draco smiled, he really didn't like this holiday at all, not since it was the season that Harry and him broke up and went different ways. The holiday he found out he was a couple months pregnant with Harry's child, Tobais. He shook his head and told himself it was not the time to think about things like this, he needed to be happy for his son or he would start to ask questions Draco wasn't ready to answer.
He looked down and saw the awe struck expression on his sons face and smiled, gently pulling his hand to get him to start walking with him. They were going shopping for new clothes to wear to Pansy and Theo's Christmas gathering that evening.
After a couple of hours of hearing Tobias complain that the clothes didn't fit right, or they were the wrong color, Draco gave up and let the boy run around the store and pick something out that he liked himself. Draco was impressed when his son came out with a pair of Black slacks and a Green top tucked in, his little hands in his pockets smiling at him.
"Wonderful choice son, now can we go to your Aunt Pansy's." Draco asked.
"Yes. But I want to stay away from Steve and Mila Papa." Tobias stated holding onto Draco's hand.
"I know you say they are mean to you but why avoid them so much?" Draco wished he understood his sons reasons for not making friends easily.
"They have a couple of friends that are twins and they make fun of me a lot so Steve and Mila join in and I don't like it." Tobias stated.
"Did you tell Aunt Pansy or Uncle Theo?" Draco asked as they made it to the apperation point.
"No. I was afraid they wouldn't believe me."
"You know they will, and I will talk to them when we get there alright. Now hold on tight." Draco stated and felt the pull of apperation before they landed on his friends front lawn.
"Draco your here early." He heard Pansy say, sounding a little worried.
"Yeah sorry about that, we got our shopping done sooner than expected. Is there a problem?" Draco asked.
"No of course not. We are glad your here. The kids are playing in the back room if you want to go Tobias." Pansy looked at him.
"He says that there is a set of twins that the children are friends with that make fun of him, and that prompts them to join in. It took everything in me to get him to want to come tonight." Draco stated.
"Oh Tobias you should have told me. I will speak to them as soon as we go inside." Pansy said.
"And why are we not going in now?" Draco asked looking past Pansy but not seeing anything but Theo walking towards them.
"Pansy what are you doing? Let them in." Draco saw Theo nod to her and smile.
Draco just let the secrecy drop for the moment. He knew something was up but didn't feel like having a fight right before the house was going to be full of guests. He would wait until everyone else left and corner his friends for information. He smiled as he walked into the house and pushed his son towards where the other children were going to be.
